1.   Rioting began Monday after Timothy Thomas was shot by Police Officer Stephen Roach in an alley in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood north of downtown Cincinnati.

2.   He said that he had prayed with the protesters and then went home before rioting began.

3.   One inmate who managed to escape said guards at the prison left the inmates alone after rioting began outside the jail compound.

4.   Rioting began a day after unidentified gunmen assassinated Azem Hajdari, a close Berisha associate.

5.   Rioting began after a mob of Muslims attacked a train carrying Hindu activists returning from the disputed site in the northern town of Ayodhya.

6.   Rioting began Saturday in Poka, a town across the Ambon bay.

7.   Rioting began Friday when Asian businessmen were accused of illicit deals in human organs used in tribal healing and sacrificial rituals.

8.   Rioting reportedly began when thousands of people took to the streets Wednesday after rumors that a mentally disturbed ethnic Chinese man tore pages out of the holy Koran.